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Ontario’s Guiding Lights28. 8. 2008 Municipalities of Ontario conducted a research on Street Lighting focusing on evaluation of different technologies and practices. It is a worthwhile reading even though the quality of the LED section is disputed by LEDs Magazine. It covers many important topics such as Light Polution, Required hours of operation and much more. After reading the chapter that evaluates |
GE Environmental Center27. 8. 2008 GE launched Environmental Information Center. It is focused mainly on US customers providing information about federal and state (all meaning US) laws and regulations, different tools and calculators to reduce energy load for buildings and so on. |
Big Apple is choosing LEDs24. 8. 2008 The New York's Department of Transportation has contracted Office for Visual Interaction to install and test LED lighting. If the tests are successful, the city’s entire stock of 300,000 street lamps could one day be replaced with L.E.D. versions. OVI's job is not also to test LED technology in lighting streets but also to redesign luminaire poles as well. Today’s poles have become a designer’s nightmare, with signs, traffic lights, con |
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Atom by Whitevoid21. 8. 2008 An interesting piece of art that could definitely serve as an inspiration. It's a performance for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound. A room is filled with deep, evolving noises from a four-channel sound system. An eight-by-eight array of white, self-illuminated spheres floats in space like the atoms of a complex molecule. Through variable positioning and illumination of each atom, a dynamic display sculpture comes into being, |
3 underpasses - workshop in conjunction with Balkan Light 200819. 8. 2008 During the 4th International Lighting Conference Balkan Light in October 2008, Municipality of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture (University of Ljubljana) and Arcadia Lightwear are organising an International Lighting Design Workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenija. Under the tutorship of renowned International Lighting Designers the participants will deal with degraded urban spaces such as underpasses and forgotten urban parks. |
Heritage Lighting course by KTH18. 8. 2008 Our partner, the Lighting Laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm/Sweden is organising an Architectural Lighting Design course focused on lighting of heritage buildings and environments. The responsible teacher is prof. Jan Ejhed. The course is due to start on the 30. September and lasts until the 20. November. The application deadline is 25. August. |















